EXCLUSIVE: One of the top books of 2020, Homeland Elegies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, is headed to television with a high-profile limited series adaptation in development at FX.
It is executive produced by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) who is set to star.Akhtar (Disgraced) will pen the adaptation with Oren Moverman (The Messenger), who is slated to direct the eight-episode limited series, produced by FX Productions.
The project hails from Sight Unseen (Bad Eduction) and Nimitt Mankad (Captain Fantastic) and his Inimitable Pictures.Raucous and searing, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of identity and belonging in post-Trump America.
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